In yet another ridiculous segment of her “Deadline” show on MSNBC, host Nicolle Wallace clutched her pearls, melted down, and declared that President Donald Trump had dropped “any and all pretense” of trying to be a normal, legal president instead of an “emperor” behaving outside the bounds of the law.
For reference, Trump, the supposed emperor, has only been in office for thirty days and, after a flurry of emergency executive orders, is already posting about how Congress can get involved in ensuring his agenda is constitutional and approved by the legislature. Posting about that on Truth Social, Trump said, “The House and Senate are doing a SPECTACULAR job of working together as one unified, and unbeatable, TEAM, however, unlike the Lindsey Graham version of the very important Legislation currently being discussed, the House Resolution implements my FULL America First Agenda, EVERYTHING, not just parts of it!”
He added, noting what Congress needs to do next to implement that agenda of his, “We need both Chambers to pass the House Budget to “kickstart” the Reconciliation process, and move all of our priorities to the concept of, “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL.” It will, without question, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
In any case, Wallace was claiming that Trump really wants to be an emperor and that Republicans are simply in denial if they are claiming otherwise. She said, “If it’s an emperor Republicans want this President’s Day maybe it’s about time they just say that and drop any and all pretense, because Donald Trump sure has.”
Continuing, she referenced the New York Times to claim that Trump’s quote of Napoleon was “un-American,” saying, “Trump’s first chief of staff there in his first term, Reince Priebus, dismissing what Jamelle Bouie of The New York Times calls, ‘The single most un-American and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an American President.’”
Still not done on that front, Wallace then described what quote of Napoleon’s Trump used, breathlessly declaring, “Trump this weekend, posting a quote to social media often attributed to Napoleon. It reads, ‘He who saves his country does not violate any law.’”
She then clutched her pearls and worried over what Trump might have meant with the quote, saying, “Perhaps more alarming than that interpretation of presidential power and its unlimited scope, is that The Supreme Court, in its ruling on presidential immunity last summer, has already kind of sort of agreed with the Napoleon and Trump.”
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Concluding, Wallace declared that the Supreme Court would have to deal with Trump, telling her viewers, “So it’s with a keen eye that will be watching The Supreme Court this week as it begins the process of further clarifying what presidential power means in this country right now, in the very first case to reach The Supreme Court, arising from Donald Trump’s flurry of executive actions these past few weeks, the Justices will again shape the scope of presidential power in a case having to do with who Trump can fire and who he cannot fire.”
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